At ease, soldier

The sun is beginning to set at Golden Gate Park and my sister and I were ready to get some food into our systems after napping and lounging in the garden during my visit. We're strolling through the roads, me getting hopeful instructions from a pea back home to do this and eat that, and Z and I trying to map out our next steps. Behind the chain-linked fence wrapped around the soon-to-be (or is it just under re-construction) California Academy of Science I spot Sean at his post, making sure noone crosses the barrier. I run across the road and ask if I could slink through the fence to talk to him.

Sean is reading The First Casualty by Phillip Knightley - a war correspondent reporting from the trenches.


Sean finds himself drawn to historical books. He happened to be in the military himself so he enjoys being entrenched in anything military/historical/war related.

The last book he read? Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commision, the Freemasons, and the Great Pyramids by Jim Marrs (exhale). Jim Marrs, another journalist (I see a pattern here) traces various guarded secrets and secret societies from ancient to modern day.


Did you have a secret club/society when you were a kid/teen? One of my guy cousins (a few years older than us) started a little secret club and called themselves "The Aces". So being younger and wanting to be "cool", too, the gal cousins formed our own little group called "The Acerettes". I know. I know. The guys met in the shed in the back and we found an opening on the other end of the shed and had our secret meetings there, too, "unbeknownst" to them.

Were you in a fraternity/sorority?